Perth. With the stormy bowling of captain Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, India defeated Australia by 295 runs on the fourth day of the first cricket test here on Monday, registering its biggest win in this country and taking a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. . With this victory, India once again reached the top of the World Test Championship table. India had slipped to second place in the points table after a crushing 0-3 home series defeat against New Zealand.
India now has 110 points from 15 matches with nine wins, five losses and one draw, which is 61.11 percent points. Australia is in second place with 57.69 percent marks. He has 90 points from 13 matches with eight wins, four losses and one draw. Chasing India’s target of 534 runs, Australia collapsed to 238 runs in 58.4 overs in front of the sharp bowling of acting captain Bumrah (three wickets for 42 runs) and Mohammed Siraj (three wickets for 51 runs), who took five wickets in the first innings. Done.
Bumrah and Siraj destroyed Australia’s top and middle order, after which Washington Sundar (2 wickets for 48 runs), Nitish Kumar Reddy (2 wickets for 21 runs) and Rhishat Rana (1 wicket for 69 runs) destroyed the lower order. . Rana and Reddy were making their debut in this match.
Travis Head, who was in excellent form for Australia, scored the highest 89 runs. He made a partnership of 62 runs for the fifth wicket with Steve Smith (17) and 82 runs for the sixth wicket with Mitchell Marsh (47) but could not save Australia from defeat.
This is India’s biggest win in terms of runs on Australian soil and its second biggest win outside Asia.
India had earlier defeated Australia by 222 runs in Melbourne in December 1977. India’s biggest win outside Asia was by 318 runs against West Indies in North Sound in August 2019. Siraj bowled brilliantly in the morning session and sent opener Usman Khawaja (04) and Smith (17), who was struggling with poor form, to the pavilion.
Australia started the day at 12 runs for three wickets and soon lost the wicket of Khawaja (04) who waved in the air while trying to pull the ball from Siraj and became the most expensive in the IPL auction on Sunday for Rs 27 crore. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant took an easy catch. Head and Smith, who have been troubling India for some time now, put a brief stop to the fall of wickets by adding 62 runs for the fifth wicket.
Siraj, who performed poorly in the home series against New Zealand, however, continued to trouble the batsmen on a pitch with uneven bounce. Smith caught wicketkeeper Pant on a good length moving ball from Siraj. Smith and Marnus Labuschagne have been struggling with poor form in the current World Test Championship cycle, which is a matter of concern for the hosts.
However, Head batted brilliantly on a deteriorating pitch and did not waste any opportunity to score runs on a weak ball. Head completed his half-century in just 63 balls by sending Siraj’s ball over the wicketkeeper’s head for four runs. Bumrah brought India closer to victory by getting Head caught by Pant in the second session. After this, Marsh also got bowled by playing Reddy’s ball on the wickets.
Sundar took the visiting team two wickets away from victory by getting Mitchell Starc (12) caught by Dhruv Jurel just before tea and then bowled Nathan Lyon (0) in the same over after the tea break. In the World Test Championship cycle, Australia’s most reliable batsman Alex Carey (36) was prolonging India’s wait for victory but Rana bowled him and ensured the victory of the visiting team.